Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists now understand immunity to disease, 1) the blood develops substances which destroy certain germs and viruses that invade the body, or 2) body tissues develop resistance to agents of disease. Neither explanation covers the temporary immunity to infantile paralysis which distemper confers on monkeys. Dr. Dalldorf reasoned that "both viruses require, for their propagation, a common cell protein or other substance which the conjugation of the first virus exhausts and thereby prevents the multiplication of [the] other virus." If he and his associates are correct, they believe that they have discovered "a new immunity mechanism in the virus field...
Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...
...Terre Haute, Ind., Farmer William H. Wilson divorced his wife. Reason: she took his false teeth, held them for $2 ransom...
Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...
...first decoration of a poem, that of Charles Stuart Pratt's "Daniel Gabriel Rossetti," up to the gigantic two-volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible which appeared in 1935. The use of different type faces characterize Rogers' fine editions and along with examples of his work, his reason for using the particular design is given. Among the varieties of type is found his own widely known Centaur...